Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

>In essence Linux Kernel (as it exists today) is something these huge companies built together

Yes I think the good part of the Linux model is that while the modern Linux kernel is definitely built by corporation funded developers the corporations themselves have relatively little control over development itself. That power lies with maintainers who, while generally also corporate employees themselves, can quite easilly switch if needed.

Sure the companies get to choose which parts of the kernel the people they employ work on and will logically favour areas that are useful to them but they are not the judges of what is accepted technically so you don't get the quality / time to market compromises so frequent in proprietary software.

The Linux model has found a way of harnessing the financial resources of corporations to ensure plenty of developer time (without which it is difficult to scale beyond a few people scratching their own itch) but without handing effective control to them with all the downsides that go with that.

But, unfortunately, I don't think the model is generally applicable, it only really works for really foundational bedrock things like the kernel where companies can be convinced to cooperate rather than compete.